Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 264 268 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.47% 9.80% 6.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.93% 33.09% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 141 167 307
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,625 £42,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £57,007
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.25% -4.99%
75th Percentile £67,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,250 £65,500 £57,774
% change year-on-year -8.02% +13.37% -6.36%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 696 810 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.41% 29.63% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 502 570 1,572
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -7.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +3 113 £47,500 -22.45% 68
Oxfordshire -3 80 £66,250 +6.00% 65
Buckinghamshire -12 71 £60,000 - 29
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.76%) WordPress
3 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.38%) Camunda
3 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (26.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 135 (51.14%) Azure
2 98 (37.12%) Power Platform
3 69 (26.14%) AWS
4 50 (18.94%) Azure AI
5 29 (10.98%) GCP
6 23 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (4.17%) GitHub
9 11 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.17%) SaaS
10 9 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (3.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 9 (3.41%) Serverless
11 8 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.89%) Figma
13 5 (1.89%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.30%) Firewall
2 5 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (1.89%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) Internet
3 2 (0.76%) MQTT
3 2 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.76%) SpaceWire
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) 5G
4 1 (0.38%) Broadband
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.38%) Modbus
4 1 (0.38%) SMTP
4 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (30.30%) Power BI
2 58 (21.97%) Tableau
3 14 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.03%) Metadata
8 5 (1.89%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (1.14%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.76%) Airbyte
10 2 (0.76%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.76%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.38%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.38%) MySQL
11 1 (0.38%) QGIS
11 1 (0.38%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 33 (12.50%) Git
2 17 (6.44%) GitLab
3 12 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.27%) MLflow
5 5 (1.89%) JMeter
5 5 (1.89%) JUnit
5 5 (1.89%) Mockito
6 4 (1.52%) JIRA
7 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.14%) Postman
7 3 (1.14%) Selenium
7 3 (1.14%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.38%) Subversion
9 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (17.80%) Finance
4 19 (7.20%) Manufacturing
5 16 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.55%) Law
8 8 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.52%) Games
11 4 (1.52%) Marketing
12 3 (1.14%) Automotive
12 3 (1.14%) Aviation
13 2 (0.76%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.76%) Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Electronics
13 2 (0.76%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (30.68%) Analyst
2 67 (25.38%) Data Analyst
3 50 (18.94%) Junior
4 48 (18.18%) Junior Analyst
4 48 (18.18%) Junior Data Analyst
5 43 (16.29%) Developer
6 40 (15.15%) Software Engineer
7 28 (10.61%) Senior
8 24 (9.09%) Python Engineer
9 21 (7.95%) Data Engineer
10 19 (7.20%) Automation Engineer
10 19 (7.20%) Python Software Engineer
11 15 (5.68%) Power Platform Developer
12 12 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
13 11 (4.17%) Associate Director
14 10 (3.79%) C++ Software Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Network Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) Telecoms Engineer
15 9 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.36%) REST
2 16 (6.06%) JSON
3 15 (5.68%) SOAP
4 14 (5.30%) .NET
5 12 (4.55%) Middleware
6 11 (4.17%) Web Services
6 11 (4.17%) XML
7 10 (3.79%) Jinja
7 10 (3.79%) YAML
8 9 (3.41%) HTML
8 9 (3.41%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (3.41%) React
8 9 (3.41%) Visualforce
9 8 (3.03%) Django
10 7 (2.65%) NumPy
10 7 (2.65%) Pandas
11 6 (2.27%) PyTorch
11 6 (2.27%) Spring
11 6 (2.27%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.98%) Low-Code
2 22 (8.33%) Life Science
3 20 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.92%) Client/Server
4 13 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.17%) Hackathon
6 9 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.14%) Animation
10 3 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 43 (16.29%) Linux
2 8 (3.03%) Unix
3 5 (1.89%) Windows
4 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.76%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.38%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (36.74%) AI
2 84 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 82 (31.06%) CI/CD
4 76 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (25.00%) Agile
6 58 (21.97%) Software Engineering
7 55 (20.83%) DevOps
8 47 (17.80%) Computer Science
9 44 (16.67%) Analytics
10 43 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (14.77%) Data Modelling
12 38 (14.39%) Machine Learning
13 37 (14.02%) Decision-Making
14 34 (12.88%) ETL
15 33 (12.50%) Data Governance
16 31 (11.74%) Containerisation
17 28 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
17 28 (10.61%) Deployment Automation
17 28 (10.61%) Test Automation
18 23 (8.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 121 (45.83%) SQL
2 51 (19.32%) JavaScript
3 40 (15.15%) C++
4 33 (12.50%) C#
5 28 (10.61%) Java
6 18 (6.82%) C
7 14 (5.30%) VBA
8 13 (4.92%) Rust
8 13 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.41%) Apex Code
9 9 (3.41%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.65%) R
11 5 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.89%) Go
11 5 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.52%) Bash
12 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.14%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (27.65%) Degree
2 50 (18.94%) Azure Certification
3 31 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (9.47%) Master's Degree
5 20 (7.58%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.55%) ACCA
6 12 (4.55%) CIMA
6 12 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.27%) PhD
8 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.23%) QA
2 20 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.52%) ECSS
5 2 (0.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.76%) GxP
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) MISRA
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (10.23%) Docker
2 16 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.68%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.30%) KVM
5 5 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.92%) Terraform
3 8 (3.03%) Ansible
4 6 (2.27%) Kibana
5 3 (1.14%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.76%) Argo
6 2 (0.76%) Grafana
6 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Control-M
7 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.44%) SAP
3 16 (6.06%) VMware
4 13 (4.92%) Databricks
5 12 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.79%) Cisco
6 10 (3.79%) Oracle
7 9 (3.41%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.41%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.89%) F5
9 5 (1.89%) Google
9 5 (1.89%) Juniper
9 5 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.89%) Splunk
10 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.76%) Agilent
11 2 (0.76%) IBM
11 2 (0.76%) Informatica
11 2 (0.76%) NVIDIA